Slate or tile roof.



PATENTED SEPT. 17, 1907.

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ALVIN E. RUDY, OF FORT HUNTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

1 SLATE OR TILE ROOF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed Ja uary 2,1907. Serial No. 350,545-

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN E. RUDY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fort Hunter, in the county of Dauphin and State oiPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Slate orTile Roofs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in the manner in which the slates or tiles areapplied to the roof, comprising the device for fastening and firmlyholding the slate or tiling in place.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l. is a perspective view of adetached portion of a roof with my improved method of fastening tilethereon; Fig. 2 is a detailed view of the fastening device, and Fig. 3is a sectional view on the line 3-3, Fig. 1.

In the process of covering the roof with slate or tile, the first courseof slate or tile is applied in the usual manner, by nailing them closeto the upper edges, to the sheathing of the roof, as shown in Fig. 1. Achalk-line is then snapped horizontally along the length of this 'firstcourse of slate, immediately below the line of nail ing, and the secondcourse of slate or tile is then applied. This course and the subsequentcourses of slate are preferably put on diagonally, although they may beput on very nearly horizontally if desired. Two diagonally oppositecorners of each slate or tile are placed on the guiding chalk-line andare spaced about onchalf inch apart, so as to permit the clamping-hook(see Fig. 2) to be placed between the corners of the adjacent slates.his second course of slate is nailed at the point 0. Fig. 1. and alsoreceives nails carrying clamping-hooks at the upper corner of each tileor slate, at point K. Fig. 1. A clamping-hook is also placed at thepoint X. Fig. 1. These hooks hold the lower corners of the third courseof slate or tile in place. The third course of slate or tile is placedin like manner on the roof. This course and each succeeding course ofslate or tile having but one nail-hole punched through each slate nearits upper corner, and the slates or tiles are fastened by means of onenail each, and one hook, the hook clamping and holding the lower cornerof the slate diagonally opposite the point of nailing. This lower cornerprojects over the nail and the shank of the hook, which secures thelower corners of the succeeding course of slate. This method of nailingis continued with each succeeding course of slate or tile to the apex ofthe roof.The nails of the preceding course of slate forming the guidefor the proper placing of the slate or tile in their positions.

It will thus appear that in each course after the two first laid, eachtile is held by a single nail through it, near one corner and by a hookengaging it near the diagonally opposite corner, which hook is carriedby the single nail securing a slate in an underlying course and the headof which nail and the shank of the hook carried thereby is in the planeof and between tiles of a course intermediate that secured by said nailand that held by the hook on said nail.

In order to remove a broken slate, the projecting lower corner of theslate covering the nailing of the broken slate, is easily pushed upward,and the nail ol the broken slate is withdrawn and a new slatesubstituted.

I claim 1. A slate or tile roof comprising slates or tiles held by :1single nail through each slate or tile near one corner, and near thediagonally opposite corner by a hook, whose shank lies in the plane of,and between the tiles of an underlying course, and which engages overthe lower edge of the slate or tile held thereby.

2. A slate or tile roof comprising slates or tiles held by a single nailthrough each slate or tile near one corner and by a hook carried by thesingle nail of a slate or tile 01 an underlying course.

3. A slate or tile roof comprising slates or tiles held by a single nailthrough each slate or tile near one corner and by a hook carried by thesingle nail of a slate or tile of an underlying course, the shank ofwhich hook and the head of its nail lying in the plane of and betweentiles of a course intermediate the two above mentioned.

ALVIN E. RUDY.

Witnesses Jos. P. RUDY, CARRIE M. RUDY.

